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The Trouble with Love in the Movies is a painfully honest account of labouring in the fields of film production, of loving and losing, living and learning. Through six movies, across three continents, in clashes on and off the set: It's a romance. From the fraught filming of Troy with Brad Pitt, to the prescient politics of Syriana with George Clooney, to the complexity of marketing the genocide film Hotel Rwanda and the Leonardo DiCaprio epic Blood Diamond, Hollywood publicist Rob Harris chronicles the drama and comedy behind the scenes that eclipse those in front of the camera. It's the story of a failed marriage, two teenage boys, and a pinball affair with a free-spirited journalist. Tales of the famous, Meryl Streep, Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx, overlap with behind-the-scenes stars whose names don't appear until the end credits. The Trouble with Love in the Movies is the same as the trouble with love the world over: can two people running in different directions find a common path? How do you connect with a moving target? Is there such a thing as happy ever after The End?""

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Rob Harris began his professional career as a freelance television writer for such shows as Laverne & Shirley. He moved to a staff position as head publicity writer for 20th Century Fox and, later, a brief stint as vice president of publicity in the New York office of Gramercy Pictures. He's been a unit publicist on over eighty movies, including Gremlins, The Goonies, The Sandlot, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Air Force One, Men in Black II, Hannibal, The Perfect Storm, Gladiator, Frost/Nixon, Black Swan, The Bucket List, American Gangster, Revolutionary Road, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, World War Z, and Maleficent. A member of both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), he is the author of Unexposed Film: A Year on Location and The Hannibal Journal. He lives in England with his wife, Nicola Graydon Harris. Their sons, Casey and Sam, live in Los Angeles - when their band, X Ambassadors, are not touring - and in Ithaca, New York, where Casey and his family spend summers in his old family home.

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